PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Classical Conditioning, Systematic Desensitization, Operant Conditioning

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Anneke Olthof

Document Summary

Cognitive therapies: focus anxiety, rational-emotive behaviour therapy. Role of irrational and self-defeating thought patterns. Helps clients discover and change cognitions that underlie problems like depression and. Helps people notice that they are operating on self-defeating assumptions. Helps people reward themselves for replacing these assumptions with realistic beliefs: beck"s cognitive therapy for depression. Depression can be worsened by errors in thinking such as catastrophizing. Helps clients identify and reprogram their automatic thought patterns: cognitive behavioural therapy (cbt) Works to change both cognitions and behaviours that are part of a mental health disorder. Maladaptive behaviours the problem, not a symptom. Maladaptive behaviours can be unlearned through: classical conditioning. Implosion: exposed to real-life situation, imagine scenes involving stimuli, systematic desensitization. Eliminate anxiety through counterconditioning: aversion therapy, operant conditioning.